Tuyere



(No Model.) F. w. GORDON.

TUYEBJE.

No. 295,540 Patented'Mari 25, 1884.

witnesses:

I Attoi-ney UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.-

FRED. W. GORDON, OF PITTSBURG; PENNSYLVANIA.

TUYERE;

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 295,540, dated March 25, 1884. Application filed November 26, 1883; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED. W. GORDON, of Pittsburg, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tuyeres, of which the following is a-specification. l

This invention'pertains to tuyeres for blastfurnaces; and it relates particularly to the arrangement of the tuyere-pipe j unction, as hereinafter described and distinctly claimed.

Figure l in the accompanying drawings is a vertical section at the breast of a blast-furnace, showing my improved tuyere in position. Fig. 2 is a rear elevationof the tuyere.

In the drawings, A represents a portion of the wall at the breast of a blast-furnace; B, a water-cooled tuyere-breast in said wall; 0, the tuyere fitting the tuyere-breast joint and protruding into the furnace; D, the water pipes of the tuyere; E, the windway through the center of the tuyere; F, the tuyere-pipe G, the water-jacket of the tuyere; H, centeringlugs on the rear face of' the tuyere for supporting the separable tuyere-pipe concentric with r the tuyere; I, the taper fit of the tuyere in the tuyere-breast; J, a shell-like extension of the outer periphery of the tuyere around the end of the tuyere-pipe and around the water-pipes ternal periphery of the tuyere, outside of the water-pipe, substantially as set forth.

FRED. W. GORDON.

Witnesses:

THOMAS DEEGAN, FRANK E. FIG-KES. 

